Broadly defined, the word refers to originating in a certain place or region; one born in or connected with a place by birth.

It is commonly used in English-speaking North America (Canada and the US) to refer to people of indigenous/American Indian/Native American/First Nation descent, though its use has to be highly contextualized if making such a reference.

The First Peoples of North America who have got there land raped by the white man and their women stolen. There future has been taken by the white society so most of them are tricked into drugs, in return the whiteman has agreed they don't have to pay taxes because they have already stole the future.